• Coding:
  • Flycheck 30 is out! With new error explanations and auto-disabling of unusable syntax checkers. (Reddit)
  • Emacs: comment-line vs comment-dwim
  • project-local snippets?
  • evil-adjust: fix elisp line-end sexp eval in normal state (Reddit)
  • Rubocop
  • Geiser – Scheme programming
  • Automatically import JavaScript files (Reddit)
  • sauron-goodies: addition functions for the Sauron logger. (Reddit)
  • Productive Emacs – Clojure and ClojureScript (playlist)
• Emacs development and releases:
  • Emacs 25 is out! What are the new features and what were my predictions (Reddit)
  • Eli Zaretskii: “I plan to release Emacs 25.2 very soon, like in a few weeks.” (Reddit)
  • John Wiegley: “many of my fears at the prospect of merging this (concurrency) branch” have been allayed (Reddit)
  • A Blast From The Past: The Tale Of Concurrency In Emacs (Reddit)
  • Emacs 16.56 porting in progress (Reddit)
  • Multics Emacs: The History, Design and Implementation (1979) (HN)
• Other:
  • mu4e-delay is dead, long live mu4e-send-delay
  • Emacs: The Infinite Program or The Ultimate Interview
  • Fast font changes in AUCTeX
  • Ivy completion at point in an overlay (Reddit)
  • Helm at the Emacs (Reddit)
  • Favourite packages: focus-mode for programmers (Reddit)
  • Boon: an Ergonomic Command Mode for Emacs (Reddit)
  • Even more dired key bindings · (or emacs (Reddit)
  • Show org-mode timer outside of Emacs
  • Efficient remote host workflow?
  • Animation of Using eshell to cd into Another Machine
  • Getting Dev Working (Episode 9) – setting up emacs with rust mode and editing rust hello world (18:56)
• New packages:
  • build-helper: Utilities to help build code
  • eshell-up: Quickly go to a specific parent directory in eshell
  • godoctor: Frontend for godoctor
  • graphql-mode: Major mode for editing GraphQL schemas
  • oceanic-theme: Oceanic theme.
  • opener: opening urls as buffers
  • package-lint: A linting library for elisp package authors
  • ryo-modal: Roll your own modal mode
  • sourcerer-theme: A version of sourcerer by xero

Links from reddit.com/r/emacs, /r/orgmode, /r/spacemacs, Hacker News, planet.emacsen.org, Youtube, the changes to the Emacs NEWS file, and emacs-devel.

Past Emacs News round-ups